It's entirely possible that the newer drivers from Linksys do not support promiscuous mode any more (promiscuous mode is a feature of the miniport driver for the network card, it's not an OS feature).
Does it fail to go into promiscuous mode or you simply don't capture any packet? GV ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bayly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wireshark-users@wireshark.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:28 AM Subject: [Wireshark-users] Linksys WPC 54g promiscuous capture on XP-sp2 > I'd been using Ethereal on my laptop using XP Pro-sp2 > and a Linksys WPC54g v.1 (and a v.1.2 card) for quite > some time. I never had any issues about capturing in > promiscuous mode. > I hadn't used for a while, and then found the > Wireshark had superseded Ethereal, so I downloaded > WinPCAP 4.02 and Wireshark. > However, I now cannot capture in promiscuous mode. > > I'm using XP Pro-sp2 and I've tried every combination > using the following: > WPC54g v.1 > WPC54g v.1.2 > Card driver v.3.3 > Card driver v.3.6 > Card driver v.4.1 > WinPCAP v.3.1 > WinPCAP v.4.0.2 > > I've also tried using tshark.exe and windump.exe to > capture, to no avail. > > Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this, > especially as I used to have no problems. > > I'm wondering if MS have broken promiscuous capture as > the configuration that used to work on another Laptop > in our office appears to have stopped working too. > > Thanks in advance, > John > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try > it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > Wireshark-users@wireshark.org > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
